It's the first day of school and Maggie, a rebellious new student, already hates the staff, stifling rules, and conformism. She thinks the school is evil, the principal bossy and overbearing, and the students a pack of miserable slaves. But Maggie doesn’t realize how frightening the school really is. A horror novel.

Not all dreams are magical things filled with hope and light, some dreams are murkier and far more sinister. From the shared dreams of her famous sons John Waters and Edgar Allen Poe, Baltimore is known for her share of peculiar oddity, but beyond the bouffant hairdos of her trademark Hons and the quirky neighborhood bars is a world even darker and stranger.

Some rock and roll groupies take pictures, others collect locks of hair or guitar picks to remind them of their conquests. The legendary Chrissie Cuff prefers to take something more personal, much to the reclusive Woody's surprises. Woody doesn't usually take on groupies, but is he willing to make an exception?

Live Action Roleplaying (LARP) in the dark bowels of the earth anyone? Add some restless dead, an ancient evil and a group of adventurers wielding only foam weapons. Not so appealing now, is it?
Mr Stephens, the owner of the Wardhope Centre, doesn’t advertise this unusual barrow event. He isn’t stupid though; he has his reasons. After all, he knows firsthand of the horrors that lurk within.

It was flying. Where was it? What is it? It was just flying. Nobody knew about it. Nobody ever saw it. I just soared through the air, undetected. There were old myths about it. 'Nobody has ever seen it. It must be because the ones that have, are dead.' Everyone doubted the myths. They thought the idea was ludicrous. But I know the truth. It was just a normal evening. Until it came.

A collection of short stories from the twisted mind of Mandy White. Creepy, eerie, darkly humorous and downright bizarre - you'll find a bit of everything here. Also take a sneak peek at her two full length novels, Avenging Annabelle and The Feeder.

Radio talk-show host Max Jervis plays the part of victim better than anyone, and that talent has made Mr. Jervis a very wealthy man. Mr. Jervis will share in any indignity and imagine any conspiracy that might help grow his broadcast empire. But Mr. Jervis forgets that there is a monster for every victim until a scraping and clawing arrive one night outside his studio door.

In these three new stories of Mike Duron's "Twisted Triplets" series, a lonely electrical engineer gets a "Hookup," but not the kind she wants, a hot internet tycoon finds out "The End is Near," and a prurient "Gore" afficionado finds love in the end. These stories will take you on a journey you won't soon forget -- and leave you wanting more!

FBI Agent Gallagher arrives in an asylum for the criminally insane in search of clues to the disappearance of a well-known cult leader. What he uncovers instead is confounding and disturbing: a deranged murderer without a victim, a dark conspiracy reaching to the highest echelons of the Government, an unseen malignancy that threatens reality itself.

On an apocalyptic future Earth, the remains of humanity engage in endless virtual reality battles to determine who will get food--and who will become food. One of these remnants, Vel, attracts the attention of All, the A.I. that manages the battles. Reeling from the death of his lover, Vel is drawn into her plans for fulfilling her ancient directive to save humanity... plans he may not survive.

Emily Darkwood and her young servant companion Jack Hobbs investigate crime and the supernatural in Victorian England as she searches for answers to her parents' mysterious fates in short tales of horror and adventure. The Luminous Marks: Glowing marks are left at the sites of petty thefts. What are they for? Darkwood and Hobbs search out the meaning of the marks in London's fog shrouded night.

One man moves into a single-room home, only to uncover a labyrinth of metaphor. Another attempts to write his own biography, ignoring his own perspective and relying solely on the testimonies of second and third-party sources. A third allows his phantom limb syndrome to flourish, realizing that the sensation will permit him to perform acts he wouldn’t have previously dared. And twelve more tales.